Summary: My guest on this show is Melinda Friedman of The Dental Essentials. The Dental Essentials is the first and only nutritional supplement specifically formulated to promote cavity resistance. The ingredients in The Dental Essentials have been clinical proven to reduce the incidence of cavities by up to 95%. When taken daily, The Dental Essentials can also “re-mineralize” or heal tooth decay that may have already started. Topics discussed on the show: Why parents who feed their kids a healthy diet find that they still have tooth decay The role of supplements in preventing cavities How the research and work of Dr. May Mellanby and Dr. Weston A. Price align with the science behind Dental Essentials You can listen to this show by clicking on the mp3 link below. A transcription of this show is below if you prefer to read rather than listen. Speaker 1: You’re here with Carrie at Natural Moms talk radio and my guest on the show today is Melinda Freedman of Dental Essentials. Welcome Melinda. Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you. Thank you. It’s nice to be here. Speaker 1: Yeah, I’m excited to talk about this subject because since becoming a parent, it’s something I’ve done a lot of research about and kind of had a lot of emotional distress about it, so I’m thrilled to find your company and your website and your products. I’m really looking forward to our discussion, but first of all tell us a little more about Dental Essentials. Speaker 2: Sure, the Dental Essentials is a small company. It’s only been around for just under two years. We create a very small line of nutritional supplements, specifically designed to help reduce the instance of cavities and it is basically following in the nutritional approach. So we have looked at sort of the history of research that has been done sort of attempting to limit the number of cavities that children get or completely eradicate them through a nutritional approach and we’ve taken the key ingredients, identified the key ingredients, the minerals, the vitamins that were used and distilled them down into a product that’s very simple for people to use. We have a liquid formulation for younger kids and a tablets formulation for kids who are able to take pills. Speaker 1: Right, well I mentioned that a lot of parents like myself, have had kind of an emotional distress when it comes to dental decay and I think that’s because we are trying so hard to feed our kids “healthy diets.” There is so many different ideas about what that means and it’s really a topic I have researched for years and years since I was a teenager, really. And when I became a parent I assumed my children would have the same experience I had, which is that I never had a cavity. I’m 36. I’ve never had a cavity. My friends kind of made fun of me growing up, they said you ate “bird seed” at your house. My parents were really health nuts, you know and I just knew that was going to be the way it was going to be with my kids. And so when they developed cavities, it made me feel like a failure. Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker 1: So a lot of parents find that, even if they are trying to feed their kids a whole food diet, their children still develop decay. What is contributing to that even in an otherwise healthy diet? Speaker 2: Good question and I just want to say that the people that I have encountered and also my personal experience mirror yours dramatically. I mean, I also expected my children to have the, you know, just the stellar examples of cavity free living and I was shocked, but the thing that shocked me even more then my child getting a cavity, when I thought OK, my diet growing up even though I would have thought it would have been New York City in the 70′s and had flouridated water. Yeah, my background wasn’t great. Lots of cavities year after year and I thought, OK, I don[...]
